Russia's space agency launched a mission early Friday to provide a ride for two cosmonauts and one U.S. astronaut who are on the International Space Station without a designated ship to get home.
The Soyuz MS-22 rocket is launched to the International Space Station with Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos onboard, on Sept. 21, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.The Soyuz MS-22 rocket is launched to the International Space Station with Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos onboard, on Sept.
The spacecraft that brought the three crew members to the ISS in the fall later experienced a leak in its radiator cooling loop, and officials from both countries had to develop a new plan to get the trio back to Earth.A Russian spacecraft suffered a coolant leak in Decemberat the International Space Station in September aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22, which remained docked at the space station.was discovered on the MS-22, NASA said.to Earth.
A Roscosmos official suggested the leak probably occurred when a small meteoroid collided with the ship's radiator,Russian and U.S. space officials began working on an alternate scheme to return the three crew members to Earth.The new plan was to launch an uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the ISS on Feb. 19, giving the astronaut and two cosmonauts a functional vessel to fly home in.
But that plan was soon paused after another coolant leak was discovered in a separate vessel on the ISS.suffered an unexplained depressurizationThe leak on Progress 82 was not connected to the planned rescue mission, but it prompted engineers at the Russian Mission Control Center near Moscow to investigate why the cargo vessel lost coolant andThe Soyuz MS-23 launched on Friday, and is expected to reach the space station by Sunday, the Associated Press reported.
Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin will then fly home in the MS-23 in several months. They were originally scheduled to leave by late March, but NASA said in January that their missions would nowRussia's state commission also decided to return the damaged MS-22 vessel to Earth without a crew, TASS said, so that engineers can examine it.
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